Prepared by Jennifer L. Parke, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State UniversitySignificant revision of the original article by Tom Coenye Laboratorium voor Farmaceutische Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Click here to see RAPDfingerprint of 1.4 kbB. cepacia epidemicstrain marker (BCESM).
Click here for a table detailingthe prevalence of BCESM DNA and cable pilin subunit geneamong B. cepacia isolates.
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